A Discourse, Delivered at Dorchester, Dec. 29, 1799: Being the Lord's Day After Hearing the Distressing Intelligence of the Death of General George Washington, Late President of the United States, and Commander in Chief of the American ArmiesSamuel Etheridge., 1800 - 16 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 6 - I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
Seite 13 - There is nothing in profane hiftory to which this fublime addrefs to the ftates can be compared. In our Sacred Scriptures we find a parallel in that recapitulation of the divine inftruftions and commands, which the legiflator of the Jews made in the hearing of Ifrael, when they were about to pafs the Jordan.